An article in the Sunday Age has reported that Ballarat has a serious crime problem. It quoted Victoria Police statistics that showed there had been 774 assaults reported in 12 months, not including 540 reports of family violence. The article also identified a dramatic increase in rape figures, ...

On Friday night in Ballarat's Bridge Mall, a group of eight young men attacked a young Indian restaurant owner, leaving him with serious injuries that put him in hospital. As the men attacked Himanshu Goyal they yelled racial abuse at him.
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There's evidence emergency department nurses are not only suffering violence and abuse from patients when they're at work; they're facing it in their social lives as well. A new Australian study at Central Queensland University is looking into the extent of the problem. ...